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V Was for Victory
196227 min 40 secFilm: Documentary
Production: Stanley ClishDonald BrittainPeter Jones
Script: Donald Brittain
April-August 1945. Hitler had said: "Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos." By 1945, Germany is beaten. V-Day celebrations verge on the hysterical, but occupying armies uncover the staggering atrocities of Belsen, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald. Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. The world's first atomic bomb is dropped on Japan.
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Subject categories
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Canadian Military ForcesWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations
- Foreign Countries > EuropeWorld War II Military Operations
- War, Conflict and Peace > Nuclear Age and the Cold WarWorld War II
- History > Canada 1946-1991World War II
- Social Studies > Canada in the World Today
Credits
- producer
- Stanley Clish
- Donald Brittain
- executive producer
- Peter Jones
- script
- Donald Brittain
- sound
- Don Wellington
- editing
- Tony Lower
- sound editing
- Kenneth Heeley-Ray
- Michael McKennirey
- re-recording
- George Croll
- Ted Haley
- narrator
- Budd Knapp
- music
- Robert Fleming
- Eldon Rathburn
- Maurice Blackburn
- Ken Campbell